New book

snatching lives from hell to hope.

Rescue is messy. If you get close enough to save someone, it changes you. That isn't a warning. It's the invitation.

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About the book

Close Enough to Smell Like Smoke

In Smells Like Smoke, Trevor DeVage challenges us to stop choosing comfort over calling. Using fire as a powerful picture of the danger, pain, and brokenness all around us, he asks a piercing question: Will we run away from the flames, or will we follow Jesus and move toward the people who need us most?


With honesty, humor, Scripture, and stories from ordinary people, Trevor explores the short but urgent book of Jude and shares lessons from his own imperfect journey as a pastor. This isn’t a book written by someone who has it all figured out. It’s an invitation from a fellow traveler who believes the gospel still calls us to courageous, sacrificial action.


Smells Like Smoke will challenge you to recognize the spiritual fires burning around you, resist the quiet pull of comfort, and step into the places where love is needed most. Because following Jesus was never meant to be safe - and if we are willing to get close enough to help pull others from the fire, we should expect to come away smelling like smoke.

“Jesus did not rescue us from a distance. He stepped into our broken world. He got close enough to our hell that He smelled like smoke.”
— The Commission

Rescued people
rescue people.

Trevor DeVage

QUESTIONS

BEFORE YOU ASK

  • The release date for the book is May 4, 2027

  • Yes. There will be an audiobook narrated by Trevor DeVage.

  • Both, on purpose. There's no insider language you'd need a seminary degree to follow.